The word you're looking for, and the one missing from the helium.com piece, is clathrate a naturally occurring lattice or cage construction consisting of two disparate molecules.
Methane clathrate, prevalent at ocean depths, and in areas with low temperatures, is commonly known as the ice that burns.
It's also being touted as the new alternative energy source, with Russia, Korea, and many others seeking ways to extract this resource before rising temperatures release it naturally.
The only rub is that clathrates are highly unstable, and it doesn't take much to break the lattice, releasing both molecules, oft times quite explosively.
Truth be told, when DWH blew, the first thing that crossed my mind was that they'd accidentally released a pocket of clathrate and that set this whole disaster in motion.
New Scientist had an excellent article on this subject last June, unfortunately it's not made it past the pay wall to be cited.
The sad part is that the "people who are employed in tourism, fishing and other uses of the Gulf of Mexico" are probably making a fraction of what rig workers and those is oil associated businesses make, and as we all know money makes the most effective political lubricant of all.
"The damage is done", again. This is just a rerun of 30+ years of bad corporate behavior.
"No sense in stopping now. Imposing a drilling moratorium now is like shutting the barn door after the horse has run off."
By that logic, we shouldn't worry about repeat pedophiles, serial killers, pharmaceuticals in our waters, PCBs, dioxin, or political and corporate malfeasance. Oh, wait, we aren't. We're too busy drinking partisan Kool-Aid®, or staring blankly at the toob salivating over the latest sex scandal or gossip tidbit to give a flippin' sh*t.
We *need* to alert the fire department, because Rome *is* burning and we need to do something about it.
"The Administration dismissed oil industry claims that the moratorium would cause irreparable harm. That position was based on the Administration's correct belief that the oil business would ultimately resume drilling operations after the moratorium is lifted."
If that's the case, then what about this assertion?
"Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig - one of the world's largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components - a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to 'catastrophic' errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. 'We are very concerned,' they wrote, 'that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.'" RS 1107
Say what you will about Rolling Stone, but I've always found their investigative reporting to be spot on, and if a 10th of what that article has to say is true we need to not only have a moratorium, but institute random inspections with agencies having the authority to shut down any operation failing any regulated safety criteria.
Just to "Be mindful of our environment." as well as "Leav[ing] politics at the door."
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1950s - Drug and atomic experimentation on soldiers, Military Industrial Complex arises 1960s - Military Industrial Complex continues, War on Drugs declared, domestic spying 1970s - War on Drugs continues, No Knock, Military Industrial Complex continues, escalation of Viet Nam war, domestic spying continues 1980s - Reagan Era voodoo economics, seeding of Al Queda in Afghanistan, Feds cut programs that would have directly benefited the citizenry 1990s - Gridlock, gutting of regulatory agencies begins, DMCA 2000s - Katrina, "privatization" of government, domestic spying intensifies, PATRIOT Act, ACTA
I would say on balance that the Federal government has gotten damned little right vs. that which they gotten wrong.
I use Google DNS to bypass the interstitial ad results page my ISP pops up with any "incompletely typed" (i.e. I didn't type.com/.net/etc.) or mistyped URL.
Since I rarely if ever click on widgets, ads or other assets, I doubt that any lag time in response would make a material difference to me (nor, I suspect, would it to many others).
It's trademark protection that is key to the profitability of the fashion industry - which she does NOT mention at all.
Actually, she does. More than once. Did you watch the video?
The point that she makes is that the ability to create derivative works fuels innovation, makes money, and fosters creativity, a point that I totally agree with.
Your assertion that "If designing a dress cost $200m, and copies made of it were sold _marked with the same brand and in the same stores_, it would never be designed in the first place." is specious.
Movies that cost $200M (and more, much more), are greenlighted all the time, bomb at the box office, die in the dustbins of discount DVDs, still don't recover their budgetary costs, and yet that doesn't stop more from being made. Does it?
Which leads to the question: Why do movies that cost millions to make generally suck the most?
Could it be that the old business models, dinosaurian management, and a sense of protected entitlement, foster a culture that recycles themes, prizes visual efx over story, stifles creativity and throttles risk taking?
Look at some of the most successful, highest grossing movies of the last 15 years and I think you'll see more that were made on relatively small budgets (Blair Witch Project being the poster child, but there are others) than you will Summer Blockbusters. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was turned down for production by all the major studios until Playtone picked it up, dropped it in the can for $5M and to date it's grossed $369M worldwide.
No, I'm with Johanna Blakely, less protectionism, less legislation, and less artificial control will foster change, evolution and creation, and that's something we should look forward to.
No, they implemented the "Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display [Add $150.00]", which brought back what creatives bemoaned the loss of, in the prior rev. of the product line, at a premium price point as you surmised.
There's a sporadic blogger who looks at this from an interesting angle, and if nothing else the photo accompanying the post is worth a look:
"I just read that Rupert Murdoch, the man that brought us Fox News, has given a resounding endorsement of Apple's new gizmo, the iPad.
Well Rupert, you've confirmed in my mind that it'll be a cold day in hell before an iPad has a place in our home, because anything *you* favor is more than likely, at its core, to be..." http://imalloverthemap.com/
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How about against 3rd party firmware, ala Tomato for Buffalo / Linksys?
Didn't see any mention of it in the article.
The word you're looking for, and the one missing from the helium.com piece, is clathrate a naturally occurring lattice or cage construction consisting of two disparate molecules.
Methane clathrate, prevalent at ocean depths, and in areas with low temperatures, is commonly known as the ice that burns.
It's also being touted as the new alternative energy source, with Russia, Korea, and many others seeking ways to extract this resource before rising temperatures release it naturally.
The only rub is that clathrates are highly unstable, and it doesn't take much to break the lattice, releasing both molecules, oft times quite explosively.
Truth be told, when DWH blew, the first thing that crossed my mind was that they'd accidentally released a pocket of clathrate and that set this whole disaster in motion.
New Scientist had an excellent article on this subject last June, unfortunately it's not made it past the pay wall to be cited.
Media focuses cameras and klieglights.
Sudden infusion of relevance.
Profit$
Sneakernet will rise again.
The sad part is that the "people who are employed in tourism, fishing and other uses of the Gulf of Mexico" are probably making a fraction of what rig workers and those is oil associated businesses make, and as we all know money makes the most effective political lubricant of all.
"The damage is done", again. This is just a rerun of 30+ years of bad corporate behavior.
"No sense in stopping now. Imposing a drilling moratorium now is like shutting the barn door after the horse has run off."
By that logic, we shouldn't worry about repeat pedophiles, serial killers, pharmaceuticals in our waters, PCBs, dioxin, or political and corporate malfeasance. Oh, wait, we aren't. We're too busy drinking partisan Kool-Aid®, or staring blankly at the toob salivating over the latest sex scandal or gossip tidbit to give a flippin' sh*t.
We *need* to alert the fire department, because Rome *is* burning and we need to do something about it.
"The Administration dismissed oil industry claims that the moratorium would cause irreparable harm. That position was based on the Administration's correct belief that the oil business would ultimately resume drilling operations after the moratorium is lifted."
If that's the case, then what about this assertion?
"Most troubling of all, the government has allowed BP to continue deep-sea production at its Atlantis rig - one of the world's largest oil platforms. Capable of drawing 200,000 barrels a day from the seafloor, Atlantis is located only 150 miles off the coast of Louisiana, in waters nearly 2,000 feet deeper than BP drilled at Deepwater Horizon. According to congressional documents, the platform lacks required engineering certification for as much as 90 percent of its subsea components - a flaw that internal BP documents reveal could lead to 'catastrophic' errors. In a May 19th letter to Salazar, 26 congressmen called for the rig to be shut down immediately. 'We are very concerned,' they wrote, 'that the tragedy at Deepwater Horizon could foreshadow an accident at BP Atlantis.'" RS 1107
Say what you will about Rolling Stone, but I've always found their investigative reporting to be spot on, and if a 10th of what that article has to say is true we need to not only have a moratorium, but institute random inspections with agencies having the authority to shut down any operation failing any regulated safety criteria.
Just to "Be mindful of our environment." as well as "Leav[ing] politics at the door."
The joke used to be... Q: "What are 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?" A: "A good start."
I respectively submit that it be officially changed to: "What are 500 judges at the bottom of the ocean?", with the same answer.
Q: "What are 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?" A: "A good start."
I respectively submit that it be officially changed to: "What are 500 judges at the bottom of the ocean?"
Damn, clicked Submit instead of Preview. Meant to add this from the advisory:
"Note:
The Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate available at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ does not appear to be vulnerable.
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x are confirmed not vulnerable."
Note: This is prerelease code:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
"Flash Player 10 Prereleases
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1950s - Drug and atomic experimentation on soldiers, Military Industrial Complex arises
1960s - Military Industrial Complex continues, War on Drugs declared, domestic spying
1970s - War on Drugs continues, No Knock, Military Industrial Complex continues, escalation of Viet Nam war, domestic spying continues
1980s - Reagan Era voodoo economics, seeding of Al Queda in Afghanistan, Feds cut programs that would have directly benefited the citizenry
1990s - Gridlock, gutting of regulatory agencies begins, DMCA
2000s - Katrina, "privatization" of government, domestic spying intensifies, PATRIOT Act, ACTA
I would say on balance that the Federal government has gotten damned little right vs. that which they gotten wrong.
Tinfoil hat fantasies aside, when's the last time the Federal government's gotten *anything* right?
This is a complete recipe for disaster at best, total malediction at worst.
Correlation does not imply causation.
See also: Scientific method
I use Google DNS to bypass the interstitial ad results page my ISP pops up with any "incompletely typed" (i.e. I didn't type .com/.net/etc.) or mistyped URL.
Since I rarely if ever click on widgets, ads or other assets, I doubt that any lag time in response would make a material difference to me (nor, I suspect, would it to many others).
It's trademark protection that is key to the profitability of the fashion industry - which she does NOT mention at all.
Actually, she does. More than once. Did you watch the video?
The point that she makes is that the ability to create derivative works fuels innovation, makes money, and fosters creativity, a point that I totally agree with.
Your assertion that "If designing a dress cost $200m, and copies made of it were sold _marked with the same brand and in the same stores_, it would never be designed in the first place." is specious.
Movies that cost $200M (and more, much more), are greenlighted all the time, bomb at the box office, die in the dustbins of discount DVDs, still don't recover their budgetary costs, and yet that doesn't stop more from being made. Does it?
Which leads to the question: Why do movies that cost millions to make generally suck the most?
Could it be that the old business models, dinosaurian management, and a sense of protected entitlement, foster a culture that recycles themes, prizes visual efx over story, stifles creativity and throttles risk taking?
Look at some of the most successful, highest grossing movies of the last 15 years and I think you'll see more that were made on relatively small budgets (Blair Witch Project being the poster child, but there are others) than you will Summer Blockbusters. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was turned down for production by all the major studios until Playtone picked it up, dropped it in the can for $5M and to date it's grossed $369M worldwide.
No, I'm with Johanna Blakely, less protectionism, less legislation, and less artificial control will foster change, evolution and creation, and that's something we should look forward to.
They're working on that.
Critical infrastructure / Windows
Seems like it's long overdue to realize that those two concepts are mutually exclusive.
A group grope?
So's Adobes Marketing Dept..
As evidenced by this photo:
http://www.adobe.com/education/purchasing/include/marquee/purchasing_marquee_792x230.jpg
Found at:
http://www.adobe.com/education/purchasing/
No, they implemented the "Hi-Res Antiglare Widescreen Display [Add $150.00]", which brought back what creatives bemoaned the loss of, in the prior rev. of the product line, at a premium price point as you surmised.
You can be sure that there will be unintended consequences (both positive and negative) with such a precedent setting decision regarding IP.
There will also be endless appeals, and lots of lawyers lavishly spending the fees this litigation will generate.
That tactic will result in negative PR and QQ as another onus is put on Apple to be the gatekeeper yet again.
Which begs the question..."Why?".
It is after all their platform, their hardware and they can "Just say no" to sidestep the issue.
There's a sporadic blogger who looks at this from an interesting angle, and if nothing else the photo accompanying the post is worth a look:
"I just read that Rupert Murdoch, the man that brought us Fox News, has given a resounding endorsement of Apple's new gizmo, the iPad.
Well Rupert, you've confirmed in my mind that it'll be a cold day in hell before an iPad has a place in our home, because anything *you* favor is more than likely, at its core, to be..." http://imalloverthemap.com/
You have more faith in the sheeple than I do.